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STAAR reading practice comparing all genres. This fourth unit of 4th grade test prep includes paired passages with multiple choice questions, including new question types, to round out the year. Fourth grade Texas reading test prep: reading comprehension passages with multiple choice questions for fourth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great…
This resource has been updated to the new TEKS assessed curriculum! Mentor sentence instruction blends explicit instruction of grammar skills with hands-on sentence building and constructing. Students analyze sentences, learn new TEKS-based grammar skills, revise and create sentences following sentence structures.
PDF | 94 pages
This product is designed to support readers in responding to poetry. It includes 33 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.
PDF | 46 pages
This activity is perfect for a word reading center or station or a word work warm-up for intervention!
PDF | 13 pages
This fourteen-page fiction pack contains graphic organizers and formats to help students record information and process fiction through character analysis, sequence of events, summarizing, and reflecting.
PDF | 15 pages
A cozy winter night of reading, writing, and crafts for families. This Winter Wonderland literacy night pack includes stations, crafts, and planning materials for a memorable family event.
Texas reading test prep: 6 passages for fourth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types, and 3 pages of questions to make connections across selections! It’s great test prep for STAAR, and it covers the genres tested in fourth grade!
Zip File | 90 pages
This product is designed to support readers in responding to fictional text. It includes almost 40 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.
PDF | 40 pages
Over 200 pages of teacher background pages, planning tools, and graphic organizers, anchor charts printables for teaching reading genre study for an entire school year. Fiction, poetry, drama, expository, persuasive, and procedural materials included so you can cover all the reading genres! Download the preview to get a peek at all of the included materials!
PDF | 207 pages
Students can record the date and subject of their reading assessments and then color in across to record their percentage correct. This can help motivate kids to set personal goals. Perfect for data notebooks or binders!
PDF | 1 page
A full year of Texas reading test prep: passages for fourth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for the ELA STAAR, and it covers all of the genres tested in fourth grade! There are four nine weeks units that include a total of 36 weeks of lessons. All of the passages are to prepare for Reporting Category 1: Reading. New question types included (Hot Text, Multi-select question, Multi-part question, and Short Constructed Responses)
Zip File | 400+ pages
Texas reading test prep: passages for fifth grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for the ELA STAAR, and it covers all of the informational genres tested in fifth grade! 9 weeks of lessons: For six weeks, read a passage each week and answer one STAAR-aligned question each day. Then compare two passages and answer questions! All of the passages are to prepare for Reporting Category 1: Reading. New question types included (Hot Text, Multi-select question, Multi-part question, and Short Constructed Responses)
Zip File | 90 pages
Texas reading test prep: 6 passages for third grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types, and 3 pages of questions to make connections across selections! It’s great test prep for STAAR, and it covers all of the literary genres tested in third grade!
Zip File | 95 pages
Third grade Texas reading test prep: 9 passages for third grade tested reading TEKS, including new question types! It’s great test prep for the ELAR STAAR, and it introduces the non-literary genres tested in third grade, plus it includes a review of the literary genres!
Zip File | 105 pages
Build summarizing skills by starting with story elements. An anchor chart, organizer, guided passage, and activities help students identify the parts of a story.
Text structure helps our readers understand how text works. This product is designed to support students in analyzing text structure. Teacher pages explain how to use the gradual release model to help students move from learning the new strategy to supported practice to independent practice.
PDF | 20 pages
This product is designed to support readers in responding to drama and plays. It includes over 45 pages of strategies with a graphic organizer to record their evidence and thinking and sentence starters to respond to the text using their organizer. It also includes a couple pages of teacher tips.
PDF | 48 pages
This set of Spring partner plays includes four different reader’s theaters for students in grades 2 – 4.
Partner Plays are two-person plays designed for partners to read together! These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue.
They are perfect for partner work, daily fluency practice, a presentation for other classes, or to put in a reading station or center, such as Buddy Reading or Read to Someone.
PDF | 9 pages
This set of reader’s theater scrips includes four different reader’s theaters for students in grades 2 – 4. These plays include a two-person cast, stage directions, and dialogue. Partner Plays are two-person plays designed for partners to read together!
They are perfect for partner work, daily fluency practice, a presentation for other classes, or to put in a reading station or center, such as Buddy Reading or Read to Someone.
PDF | 9 pages
Make figurative language click. A reference sheet, activities, and a graphic organizer help students identify and use eight types of figurative language.
This third grade fiction legend reading passage is aligned to TEKS and the Texas Reading test! One half-page passage is included, along with five test aligned questions, an answer key, TEKS alignment, and academic vocabulary from the questions.
PDF | 4 pages
This fourth grade informational reading passage is aligned to TEKS and the Texas Reading test! One half-page passage is included, along with five test aligned questions, an answer key, TEKS alignment, and academic vocabulary from the questions.
PDF | 4 pages
Work with the TEKS vocabulary for fifth grade with these word wall cards that cover all the nouns and verbs from the ELAR TEKS! Each of the 364 cards includes the word (or phrase), a student-friendly definition, and a picture to help kids remember the meaning of the term.
Zip File | 150 pages
Work with the ELAR TEKS vocabulary for third grade with these word wall cards that cover all the nouns and verbs from the TEKS! Each of the 361 cards includes the word (or phrase), a student-friendly definition, and a picture to help kids remember the meaning of the term.
Zip File | 152 pages
This guide will help you plan your first 20 days of reading instruction in grades 3-5. It’s full of lessons and printable tools to glue into reader’s notebooks. Establish metacognition, monitoring comprehension, responding to reading, and clear expectations for independent reading right away!
Zip File | 26 pages
